floating-point assist fault

Itanium Architecture 시스템에서만 나타나는 오류로 /var/adm/messages 에 다음과 같은 오류메세지가 기록된다면 아래와 같이 처리하면 됨.

oracle(9581): floating-point assist fault at ip 40000000068c22c2
...
oracle(13763): floating-point assist fault at ip 40000000072b8081

Solution

It is possible to completely turn off the floating-point assist messages from the console (they are still written to /var/log/messages)
To do this, simply issue the command as "root":

$ dmesg -n4

To eliminate them also from /var/log/messages :

1. edit /etc/syslog.conf changing line:
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none               /var/log/messages
 to
*.error;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none               /var/log/messages

This means any facility logging messages below error level will be suppressed

2. restart syslog
service syslog restart